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With all the rave about niche blogging and linking only to related sites, bloggers are overlooking a powerful marketing tool. Sure, its great to get targeted niche traffic but some niches are universally appealing to most readers. Some of these universal niches include:

Personal Finance,
Career,
Parenting,
Education,
Health and Fitness,
Self-Improvement.
etc.

If your blog belong to one of these niches, [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I was approached by a blogger whom I greatly respect about a freelance writing position for a software company’s blog. I checked out the company and felt that I could do a good job writing for them, so we started our negotiation process.

One of the first question that came [...]

I have been a loyal user of PayPal for many years. Over the years, I’ve paid nearly a $1,000 in transaction fees to PayPal. Well, now there’s an alternative called Revolution Money Exchange.

The key differences between Revolution Money Exchange and PayPal?

Revolution Money Exchange doesn’t charge you any transaction fee. The only fees [...]

Each month, I will be doing a short review to say thank you to all the readers, contributors, and referrers.
Contributors
Thank you to the following individuals for contributing content to Blogthority:

Paidtwice of I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…
Plonkee of Plonkee Money

Top Referrers
I am thankful for every visitor sent. Although I can’t list all referrers, I’d [...]

Many bloggers and webmasters are familiar with AdSense and its potential to generate excellent revenue for blogs and web sites. Unfortunately, many bloggers and webmasters focus too much on AdSense and forget that there are other types of advertising — i.e., CPM advertising — that could improve their blog monetization further, and without affecting [...]

Over the past few weeks, my friends and I wrote about different aspects of blogging and how to position your blog more successful. In this post, I would like to take a step back and talk about how to start a blog. Specifically, I will discuss how to start a self-hosted WordPress blog since [...]

In my “12 Essential Companion Accounts for a Successful Blog” article, Lisa from Greener Pastures asked:
“I am on the free Blogspot Software, but I notice everyone keeps mentioning Wordpress. Could you talk more about this? I’m thinking I should convert, but wanted to keep my budget on this project as minimal as possible.”
Instead of answering [...]

Each month, I will be doing a short review to say thank you to all the readers, contributors, and referrers.
Contributors
Thank you to the following individuals for contributing content to Blogthority:

Paidtwice of I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…
Plonkee of Plonkee Money
My Two Dollars of My Two Dollars
Four Pillars of Quest For Four Pillars

Top Referrers
I am thankful [...]

One of the most common design issues associated with web sites, and especially with blogs, is clutter. It’s so easy to fill the sidebar with links, widgets, and clicklets. So easy that even the most ardent minimalists have to stop and unclutter their sites from time to time. So, how do you decide if something [...]

It happens to all of us one time or another. You stare at the blank screen, or perhaps one with a half-written post. You stare until you feel like pulling your hair out….and still nothing. You just crashed head on against writer’s block.

Photo by Mayr via Flickr
Hopefully, you have been pacing [...]